Last year, I shared a recipe for Cocoa Coffee using Truvia Baking Blend. Now that we’re transitioning off Nutrisystem, I’ll be doing more baking again, so I was interested to try the Baking Blend in a muffin recipe as another way to streamline calories. I’ve spent the last week mulling over ideas for possible dessert/snack items I could bake ahead and freeze using what I have on hand. I liked the idea of a muffin, as it’s an easy, portable item good for brown bag lunches. I decided to modify a recipe I found on AllRecipes to better fit my dietary needs and what ingredients I had, and came up with these oatmeal-banana muffins:
Oatmeal Banana Muffins
Recipe adapted from “Easy Oatmeal Muffins” on AllRecipes.com
Ingredients:
1 cup old fashioned oats
1 cup milk
1 banana
1 egg
1 cup all purpose flour
2 TBSP Truvia Baking Blend
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Directions:
Heat oven to 325 degrees. Combine oats and milk in a bowl and leave to soak for 15 minutes. Then add all remaining ingredients and blend together with a hand mixer until combined. Using a muffin pan with 12 liners, pour batter into each liner until it is two-thirds full. Place the pan into the oven and bake for around 30 minutes or until done.
Yield: 12 small muffins – 93 calories each
Notes:
This was quite a simple recipe. I made two batches this afternoon – the first one was cooked at 425 degrees per the recipe I was adapting, but the muffins got a little overdone. Baking at 325 worked better, however both times the muffins really stuck to the liners. This seems to be an issue I have with muffins – maybe because of the moist ingredients? Or perhaps I should be greasing the paper liners? If you have any suggestions I’m all ears!
Despite that issue, they taste really yummy! I couldn’t taste a discrenable difference using the Truvia versus normal sugar – I find that sugar substitutes usually work quite well in baked goods, and they sure save a lot of calories. I determined that each muffin should be around 93 calories based on the ingredients; some items in my kitchen weren’t labeled with caloric information, so I did a lot of Googling to get an idea of the caloric content. I think these will be a great pre-portioned snack for us…assuming that they last long enough to make it in our lunch pails. 😉
That is such a reasonable amount of calories per muffin. I don’t know much about Truvia, but those look really good!
Oh yum! These sound great and I love the low calorie count!!!
Those look really good, Beeb. I like the lower calorie count. I’ll have to whip up a batch.
mmmmmmmmmmmmm banana muffins. i love banana baked goods!
My children love bananas. I bet those smelled great while baking too!!
mmi love oatmeal muffins and banana so i must try this recipe!
They sound good. I never use liners because of sticking. Just lightly spray your muffin tin and pour the batter in!
My teen is a HUGE fan of banana bread and muffins. This would be a great way to give him his late night favorite snack and keep the sugar out of his system (he already stays up way too late as it is lol)
School starts tomorrow for my kids, I am on a budget and ran across this version of oatmeal muffins. I have one kid who refuses to get up in the morning so I need a quick breakfast….I was so close to buying breakfast bars but instead bought some banana’s (I had everything else in my cabinets). Doubled the batch and put some chocolate chips in half. Thanks for the yummy recipe!